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both sides with lobed and pectinated membranes, which are 
united at the base, so as to render the foot nearly half-web- 
bed, the outer web much longer than the inner. Claws very 
small, compressed, arched, obtuse. Plumage soft and blend- 
ed ; wings long and pointed, first quill longest, secondary 
quills rather short, the inner much elongated. Tail of mo- 
derate length, much rounded, of twelve feathers, the lower 
tail-coverts as long. 
340. 1. Phalaropus fulicarius, Bonap. Red Phalarope. 
Plate CCLV. Male and Female in summer. Male in winter. 
In summer, the bill greenish-yellow, black at the point ; feet pale 
green ; upper part of head black ; loral space and chin blackish-grey ; 
sides of head, and a band round the occiput, white ; sides and fore 
part of neck, breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts deep orange-red ; 
fore part of back, scapulars, and inner secondaries, black, the feathers 
edged with whitish ; wing-coverts deep ash-grey ; quills dark greenish- 
brown, their shafts and basal parts white ; the ends of the secondary 
and primary coverts, and the basal part of the outer webs of the pri- 
maries white, forming a band of that colour on the wing ; upper tail- 
coverts orange-red ; tail deep grey, darker towards the end, slightly 
tipped with reddish. Female in summer with the upper part varie- 
gated with light red and brownish-black, the central part of each fea- 
ther being of the latter colour ; the upper tail-coverts entirely of the 
former ; tail deep grey, as in the male ; lower parts of a less pure red, 
being paler, and tinged with grey. In winter the bill nearly black, 
upper and fore part of head, fore part and sides of neck, breast, abdo- 
men, lower and lateral upper tail-coverts, with a band across the wing, 
white ; a brownish-black line from the eye to the occiput, which is of 
the same colour, as well as in the middle of the hind neck ; back, sca- 
pulars, and inner secondaries, ash-grey. 
Adult 13. 
Occasionally in flocks in Kentucky, on the Ohio, during autumn 
often at sea on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Breeds in high 
northern latitudes, as far as Melville Peninsula. Stragglers at times 
reach as far south as New Jersey, but the route of this species toward 
warmer regions, is along the Pacific coast. 
Red Phalarope, Phalaropus hyperboreus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. ix, p. 75. 
Phalaropus fulicarius, Bonap. Syn. p. 341. 
Phalaropus fulicarius. Flat-hilled Phalarope, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. 
p. 407. 
Red Phalarope, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 236. 
Red Phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 404. 
